Kazuo Ishiguro

ISBN-13: 9780415415361 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 188 str.

Singapore) Sim Wai-chew (Nanyang Technological University

Opis

Having earned an international reputation with his booker-prize-winning novel, The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro is fast emerging as an important cultural figure of our times. In this guide to Ishiguro s varied and often experimental work, Wai-chew Sim presents:

• a biographical survey of Ishiguro s literary career, and an introduction to his novels, plays and short stories
• an accessible overview of the contexts and many interpretations of his work, from publication to the present
• discussions of key topics in Ishiguro criticism such as narrative theory, multicultural Britain and postcolonial studies, psychoanalytic criticism, and Ishiguro as international writer
• cross-references between sections of the guide, in order to suggest links between texts, contexts and criticism
• suggestions for further reading.

Part of the Routledge Guides to Literature series, this volume is essential reading for all those beginning detailed study of Kazuo Ishiguro and seeking not only a guide to his works but also a way through the wealth of contextual and critical material that surrounds them."

Spis treści

Introduction  1: Life and Contexts  2: Works  3: Criticism  Chronology  Bibliography  Index

O autorze

Wai-chew Sim is Assistant Professor at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.